Reader’s Guide to Raise Student’s GPA by

Working Out
By: Shane Kipple
 Table Of Contents
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A Letter From The Editor……………………………………….………....3

Chapter 1……………………………………………………………….......4

Chapter 2……………………………………………………………….......5

Chapter 3……………………………………………………………….......6

Conclusion…………………………………………………………….........8

Citations……………………………………………………………….........9
 A Letter from the Editor

Dear Reader, 
Welcome to a reader’s guide to raise a student’s Grade Point Average by 
working out. In this guide there are steps, tips, and statistics that are proven to 
help students have a higher GPA. This guide is to be used as a statistical 
representation of what is possible if a student were to visit the gym a few times 
more a month. Included in this guide to use the gym for a higher GPA are numerous 
facts that relate to how going to the gym correlates to having a higher GPA. In the 
first chapter of this guide there will be evidence from multiple sources and real-life 
college student situations. The examples used will directly correlate with how the 
individual’s GPA is raised. In the second chapter there will be more specific 
examples of how going to the gym will not just improve your grades, but also 
improve your overall well-being. 
 
This guide is not meant to influence the reader by any means to actually go 
to the gym. Instead it is here to lay out the facts so that it can possibly open the 
reader’s eyes to legitimate and proven situations that could benefit the reader 
physically and mentally. This guide hopefully will inspire the reader to look more 
into the subject to eventually persuade them into taking action towards their own 
overall health, including mental which is very often correlated to an individual’s 
GPA. 
Love,  
Shane Kipple 
 
   
 Chapter 1  
 
Many studies have been done to prove that partaking in physical activity 
multiple times a week will help raise a student’s gpa. The following information 
comes from the articles ​“7 Science-Backed Ways Exercise Improves Students’ 
Grades” ​by ParticpACTION, and ​“College Students Working Out at Campus 
Gyms Get Better Grades” ​by Amy Patterson Neubert. 
 
“7 Science-Backed Ways Exercise Improves Students’ Grades” by
ParticipACTION

This article states seven scientifically proven ways that exercise improves
student’s grades. According to a study, kids that are physically active twenty minutes
before a test tend to receive a higher score. Multiple other ways that exercise improves
a students grades are by enhancing their ability to concentrate, increases their attention
span, improves memory, boosts confidence, reduces stress and anxiety, and heightens
creativity. Another important fact the article states is that the benefits of exercise
increase over time. This article provides exactly the information I am looking for. It is
very straightforward in a good and bad way. Although it has exactly the information I am
looking for, one of the article’s weaknesses is that it does not elaborate very well as to
how the benefits are scientifically proven after each benefit. Some of them are more
elaborate than others. However, it does provide links that explain more about that
benefit. A strength of this article is that it does not waste the reader’s time explaining
why the article was posted. It has the exact answer to my research question. This article
will be helpful to my paper by the way it automatically gives me seven key points
supporting the answer to my research question.

“College Students Working Out at Campus Gyms Get Better

Grades” by Amy Patterson Neubert
This article is specific in the way it focuses on student’s grades compared to how
often they visit the gym on their campus. It states how the more times students visit their
campus gym a month, the higher GPA they have. It is based off of students at Perdue
University. It states how students who go to the gym and are motivated to go to the gym
tend to have better time management skills. This study was produced through the
school looking at how many times a student ID number checked into the gym, and
comparing it to how high that same student’s GPA is. This article is very persuasive as it
has many facts and experiments that back up the argument it is stating. This article not
only talks about college students but talks about how exercise does not only improve
college student’s grades, but k-12 student’s grades as well. This article will be helpful to
my paper by the way it provides statistics on the average GPA of a student who goes to
the gym at least sixteen times a month and the average GPA of a student who goes to
the gym at least seven times a month.
   
 Chapter 2  
 
In this chapter the connection between grades and exercise rate is 
strengthened through the use of a newspaper article entitled “​Vigorous Exercise 
Linked With Better Grades” ​by Tara Parker Pope and the book, ​“Committee on 
Physical Activity and Physical Education in the School Environment”​ by Basch. 

“Vigorous Exercise Linked With Better Grades” by Tara Parker

Pope
This is a New York Times article that focuses on a report presented at the
American College of Sports Medicine’s 57th annual meeting in Baltimore. It states that if
students want to boost their grades, they can start by boosting their level of exercise.
The researchers behind the results of this article were curious if exercise boosted
grades or if high academic achievers were more likely to be high achievers in physical
activity as well. This article is persuasive because the author backs up their argument
with results taken from a real experiment. A strength of this article is that it is different
than the other articles I have read by the way the researchers did not only look at how
often a students went to the gym and how high their GPA was. They also looked into
their gender, how often they studied, if they participated in college sports, and where
they studied when they did. With including these factors, the result was still the same
and I am able to add those factors into my research. A weakness of this paper is that it
is not very long, therefore it does not give me a lot to add to my paper compared to
other articles I have read.
“Committee on Physical Activity and Physical Education in the
School Environment” by Basch
This online book argues that the more physical activity leads to not only a
healthier body, but a healthier mind. It states that there is little evidence that spending
more time learning the subject matter leads to better test scores, which is what most
schools try to do. According to this book, children respond faster and with greater
accuracy to a variety of cognitive tasks after participating in a session of physical
activity. Even if it is just a quick break in between assignments to do some sort of
physical activity is proven to increase neural and behavioral concomitants related to
issues paying attention to a specific task. A strength of this book is that it provides
examples of previous studies that have resulted in proving that physical activity is
related with higher academic performance. Another strength of this book is that it does
not just focus on actually exercise, but just any form or amount of time of physical
activity. This book is unique and different to the previous sources I have found due to its
focus on cognitive thinking. A weakness of this book is that it mainly focuses on children
rather than college students. However, multiple other sources have stated that the
results are the same for college students as they are for children.
 Chapter 3 
 
In this chapter, the overall lifestyle of a college student is put under research 
and how fitness levels and grades correlate and causate eachother using the article 
“College Student Work Habits Are Related To Physical Activity and Fitness”​ by 
Jesse Calestine, the article by Terri Williams entitled, “​How Exercise Can Improve 
Your Academic Perfomance”​ and the book by Jared T. Meachem called “​Are 
Physically Active College Students More Successful Academically Than Their 
Inactive Peers?”  
 
“College Student Work Habits Are Related to Physical Activity
and Fitness” by Jesse Calestine
This article is based on a study that has been conducted on exactly what my
extended inquiry is focusing on. The purpose of this study was to find out the
relationship between physical activity and not just any students, but college students.
According to this article, research shows that there is a significant decline in physical
activity participation in young adulthood during the college years. This article states that
this decline is affecting students academic performance. A strength of this article is that
it provides statistics and examples of studies that have been done in the past. Because
of this article has statistics and research to back up its argument, it is very persuasive.
One weakness about this article when using it for my specific research question is that it
does not just have information about physical activity in comparison to academic
success, it also has information about how working out will help your flexibility, muscle
endurance, behavioral outcomes, body composition and other information that is good
to know, just does not help me with what I am researching. Another weakness of this
article is that does not state any other specific benefits of physical activity on academic
performance other than cognitive thinking.
“How Exercise Can Improve Your Academic Performance” by
Terri Williams
This article argues that exercise is the
missing key to college success. This article is
unique in the way it does not only focus on
how physical activity benefits academic
success but also benefits graduations rates.
Out of all of the sources I have found this one
sticks out the most to me and pay be one of
the most helpful because of the fact they it
does not only state how physical activity
increases academic success but it state
exactly how much physical activity may help
a student raise their GPA. According to the
study this article is based on, student who
exercise regularly - at least three times a
week - at an intensity of eight times resting
graduate at higher rates and on average
earn a full GPA point higher than other
students who do not engage in physical
activity. This article is very persuasive
because it gives many examples of what
forms of physical activity that have been
proven to benefit student’s academic
success in the past. A strength this article
has is that it is very short or to the point, yet
has enough information to back up the
argument it is making. I think this article will
be very useful to me while I write my
extended inquiry.

“Are Physically Active College

Students More Successful
Academically Than Their
Inactive Peers?” by Jared T. Meacham
This online book is about how students in the United States are struggling with their
academics more than ever before and are struggling to keep up with the academic pace of other
industrialized nations. Chapter one talks about how school systems all over the United States
are now looking for solutions to improve student’s academic performance in a healthy way.
Schools have tried to shorten physical education time in order for the students to be able to
spend more time learning in the classroom while other schools have tried increasing time spent
doing physical education. Studies have shown that both experiments have had their positives
and negatives. However, it has been recognized that the majority of these studies have only
been attempted in middle school and highschool, but not on college students. Because of this, a
study was started to find the relationship between physically active college students grades and
their inactive peers. Weakness of using this book is that it is so long and has so much
information that is not useful to to my extended inquiry that it is hard to find all of the chapters
that could hold valuable information I could use. Chapter one is persuasive because it has so
much information. However, the information is so spread out that it becomes overwhelming.

   
 Conclusion 
 
At this point dear reader you have finished looking over all the 
research that was conducted by me and others, I’m thankful that 
you took the time to read and absorb the information and hope you 
as the reader either continue your own research or use the newfound 
knowledge to guide your future decisions for a better, more positive 
future.  
Dream big, and never stop, 
Your Author Shane Kipple 
 Citations
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Committee on Physical Activity and Physical Education in the School Environment; Food and
Nutrition Board; Institute of Medicine; Kohl HW III, Cook HD, editors. Educating the Student
Body: Taking Physical Activity and Physical Education to School. Washington (DC): National
Academies Press (US); 2013 Oct 30. 4, Physical Activity, Fitness, and Physical Education:
Effects on Academic Performance. Available

Meacham, Jared T., "Are Physically Active College Students More Successful Academically
Than Their Inactive Peers?" University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations 2015

Neubert, Amy Patterson. ​“College students working out at campus gyms get better grades”.
Perdue University News, ​ Accessed 29 October 2018.

Parker-Pope, Tara. ​“Vigorous Exercise Linked With Better Grades.” ​New York Times​, ​Accessed
29 October 2018.

Williams, Terri. ​"How Exercise Can Improve Your Academic Performance."​ ThoughtCo,
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“7 Science-Backed Ways Exercise Improves Students’ Grades”. ​Reader’s Digest.ca, ​Accessed

29 October 2018.